Quick Personality Assessment Schedule (PAS-Q): Validation of a brief screening test for personality disorders in a population of psychiatric outpatients

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry

Volumn 45, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 756-762

  Germans, Sara ^a   Van Heck, Guus L ^b   Hodiamont, Paul P G ^c  

^a Namsos Hospital   (Norway)

^b TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Personality disorders; Screening instrument; Validity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERSONALITY DISORDER; PERSONALITY TEST; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREVALENCE; QUICK PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT SCHEDULE; SCREENING TEST; STRUCTURED CLINICAL INTERVIEW FOR DSM DISORDERS; STRUCTURED INTERVIEW;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEW, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUTPATIENTS; PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT; PERSONALITY DISORDERS; PSYCHOMETRICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 80052449871     PISSN: 00048674     EISSN: 14401614     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/00048674.2011.595683     Document Type: Article

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